Review
The author has gathered and integrated the latest advances in engineering maintenance into practical step-by-step plans to optimize maintenance activities, extend equipment life, and minimize failures.
-MEBOOKSHELF
A comprehensive presentation of modern maintenance engineering concepts and practices that includes major recent developments this book provides a cradle-to-grave strategy for preserving equipment, avoiding the consequences of failure, and ensuring the productive capacity of equipment. It covers key maintenance-engineering topics from management and control, preventative and corrective maintenance to new concepts such as reliability-centered maintenance, human error, quality and safety, and maintainability. The author addresses maintenance mathematics and costing and emphasizes practical applications illustrated by numerous examples.

Book Info
Presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function, avoid the consequences of failures, and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. Provides theoretical and mathematics background but emphasizes its practical application

Review
"…a tremendous wealth of information, more than any this reviewer has seen in any other single text on the subject." (EASA Currents, April 2005)
"…a collection of practical information dealing with the operation, inspection, and maintenance and troubleshooting of large turbine generating units." (E-STREAMS, April 2005)

Book Description
The comprehensive guide for the operation and maintenance of large turbo-generators

Operation and Maintenance of Large Turbo-Generators is the ultimate resource for operators and inspectors of large utility and industrial generating facilities who deal with multiple units of disparate size, origin, and vintage. It offers the complete scope of information regarding operation and maintenance of all types of turbine-driven generators built in the world.

Based on the authors’ combined sixty years of generating station and design work experience, the information presented in the book is designed to inform the reader about actual machine operational problems and failure modes that occur in generating stations and other types of facilities. Readers will find very detailed coverage of:

Design and construction of generators and auxiliary systems
Generator operation, including interaction with the grid
Monitoring, diagnostics, and protection of turbo-generators
Inspection practices, including stator, rotor, and auxiliary systems
Ideas for improving plant reliability and reducing costs and electrical failures
Maintenance testing, including electrical and nondestructive examination
Operation and Maintenance of Large Turbo-Generators comes filled with photos and graphs, commonly used inspection forms, and extensive references for each topic. It is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in the design, construction, protection, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of large generators in generating stations and industrial power facilities. The book is also an excellent learning tool for students, consultants, and design engineers

Major Process Equipment Maintenance And Repair

Major Process Equipment Maintenance And Repair

The readers of the four volumes on “Machinery Management” can be di-
- those who can say: That’s exactly what happened to me back in 19-- !
- those who can say: Why didn’t I know this back in 19-- ?!
- those who can say: I hope I’ll remember all this when I am in charge!
In other words, those with a lot, a little, and no experience stand to benefit
from studying these four volumes. Maybe some of the people with a lot of experience
could find other ways to solve a particular case, but even they cannot
match the knowledge and experience that the authors amassed in these books.
In the past, many a good Machinery Manager was “made” through many
years of experience, and also through many costly mistakes. These “experts”
passed on their experience to the people they worked with, but seldom could
experience gained in one particular location prepare someone for the multitude
of things that can go wrong. It is because of this that the authors must be commended
for their effort to disseminate not only their experience, but also the
lessons they learned from many other experts.
Volume 4 complements the first three books by focusing on major equipment
installation and repair-foundations, pumps, blowers, turbines, electric motors,
and lubrication and storage. These four volumes contain a wealth of information
on machinery found in most petrochemical plants, and in their quest for perfection,
three principal groups will benefit from this text: Those who design machinery,
those who maintain machinery, and those who operate machinery.
As a manufacturer of machinery, I realize that only knowledgeable people can
fully utilize our efforts to make the best machines, to give guidelines on how to
optimally maintain these machines, and finally how to best operate these machines.
Used in conjunction with the preceding three volumes or used alone, this
book will make the reader a knowledgeable person.

Maintenance involves preventive (planned) and
unplanned actions carried out to
retain a system at or restore it to an acceptable operating condition. Optimal
maintenance policies aim to provide optimum system reliability and safety
performance at the lowest possible maintenance costs. Proper maintenance
techniques have been emphasized due to increased safety and reliability
requirements of systems, increased complexity, and rising costs of material and
labor (Sheriff and Smith 1981). For some systems, such as aircraft, submarines,
military systems, aerospace systems, it is extremely important to avoid failure
during actual operation because it is dangerous and disastrous. One important
research area in reliability engineering is the study of various maintenance policies
in order to improve system reliability, to prevent the occurrence of system failure,
and to reduce maintenance costs (Pham and Wang 1996).
In the past several decades, maintenance, replacement and

A machinery engineer’s job was accurately described by this ad, which appeared
in the classified section of the New York Times on January 2, 1972:
Personable, well-educated, literate individual with college degree
in any form of engineering or physics to work . . . Job requires wide
knowledge and experience in physical sciences, materials, construction
techniques, mathematics and drafting. Competence in the
use of spoken and written English is required. Must be willing to
suffer personal indignities from clients, professional derision from
peers in more conventional jobs, and slanderous insults from
colleagues.
Job involves frequent physical danger, trips to inaccessible locations
throughout the world, manual labor and extreme frustration
from lack of data on which to base decisions.
Applicant must be willing to risk personal and professional
future on decisions based on inadequate information and complete
lack of control over acceptance of recommendations . . .